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59 Geo. 3. c. 60,

Colonial Bishops.

said Schedule mentiqued, but not so as to revive any other Acts repealed thereby, nor so as to render invalid or illegal any Act, Matter, or Thing lawfully done in conformity with the said Acts, or any of them, at any Time before the passing of this Act.

2. Whereas by the Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of His 5 late Majesty King George the Third (being One of the said Acts hereby repealed) it is (amongst other things) enacted that no Person who after the passing of that Act should have been ordained a Deacon or Priest by a Colonial Bishop who at the Time of such Ordination did not actually possess an Episcopal Jurisdiction over 10 some Diocese, District, or Place, or was not actually residing within such Division, District, or Place, should be capable in any way or on any Pretence whatever of at any Time holding any Par- sonage or other Ecclesiastical Preferment within His Majesty's Dominions, or of being a Stipendiary Curate or Chaplain, or of 15 officiating at any Place or in any Manner as a Minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland, and that all Admis- sions, Institutions, and Inductions to Benefices in the Church of England or Church of Ireland, and all Appointments to act as Curates therein, which shall be made contrary to the Provisions 20 of that Act should be to all Intents and Purposes null and void: And whereas it is apprehended that through Ignorance or Inad- vertence or Misapprehension of the Law as to Episcopal Jurisdiction in some of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions Persons ordained by Colonial Bishops who at the Time of such Ordination 25 did not actually possess an Episcopal Jurisdiction over the Diocese, District, or Place within which they were then actually residing, may have held or may now hold Parsonages or other Ecclesiastical Preferments within Her Majesty's Dominions, or may have been or may now be Stipendiary Curates or Chaplains therein, or may 30 have officiated from Time to Time as Ministers of the Established Church of England and Ireland: Be it enacted as follows: No Admission, Institution, or Induction of any Person so ordained as aforesaid to any Parsonage or other Ecclesiastical Preferment within Her Majesty's Dominions, or to any Stipendiary Curacy 35 in case of or Chaplaincy, nor any Act performed by any such Person as a Ordinations

Minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland, shall by Bishops not having be deemed to be or to have been invalid at Law by reason of any Jurisdiction Want of Jurisdiction of the Bishop by whom such Person may

have been ordnined over any Diocese, District, or Place within 40 which such Bishop may have been actually residing at the Time of such Ordination; but every such Admission, Institution, or Induc- tion, and every such ministerial Act as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have been as valid and effectual for all Purposes whatever as if the

Validity given to Appoint- ments and ministerial Acts

in the Place of their

Residence.

Person

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Person sa ordained as aforesaid had been ordained by a Colonial Bishop possessing an Episcopal Jurisdiction over some Diocese, District, or Place, and actually residing therein.

ordained by

to hold Pre-

3. No Person admitted into the Holy Orders of Priest or Persons 5 Deacon by any Bishop not being a Bishop of a Diocese in Eng- Foreign or land or Ireland shall be entitled to be admitted or instituted to Colonia! any Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment in Eugland or Ireland without the Consent and Approbation of the Bishop of ferment in

Bishops not the Diocese in which such Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Pre- England or 10 ferment may be situated; and any such Bishop shall be enti- without Ireland tled to refuse such Consent and Approbation without assigning Consent of Reason for such Refusal, any Law or Practice to the contrary notwithstanding; and every such Person) seeking to be admitted or instituted to such Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment,

15 or to be licensed to any Curacy, shall, before being admitted, instituted, or licensed, make and subscribe before such Bishop every such Declaration and Subscription as he would by Law have been required to make and subscribe at his Ordination if he had been ordained by a Bishop of the United Church of

20 England or Ireland: Provided always, that the Provisions of this Section shall not apply to any such Person who shall hold or shall have held any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment in England or Ireland.

Diocesan;

4. Any Person who shall have been admitted into the Iloly Nor to

without

contrary to

25 Orders of Priest or Deacon by any Bishop not being a Bishop officiate

of a Diocese in England or Ireland, and who does not hold or Notice to who has not held any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment in Diocesan or England or Ireland, who shall knowingly officiate on more than his Injunes One Day within Three Months in any Church or Chapel in tion. 30 any Diocese in England or Ireland without notifying the same to the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Church or Chapel is situate, or who shall officiate contrary to any Injunction of the Bishop of the Diocese under his Hand and Seal, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds to the

35 Governor of Queen Anne's Bounty, to be recovered by Action of Debt, brought in the Name of the Treasurer of the said Bounty, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Session in Scotland at the Suit of the Public Prosecutor, or in Ireland in any Court of Common Law in the Name of the

40 Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

5. Nothing in the Two last preceding Sections of this Act Exception of contained shall extend or be held to extend to any Person who, Persous

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